If it says on the IGI that they were christened at SAINT NICHOLAS.......... They are referring to the CHURCH, right? Saint Nicholas, ISN'T a place? Is it? They were born in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland???? Sorry, probably a dumb question, but unfortunately DON'T know the answer. Thanks :sjl

St. Nicholas is a town outside of Aberdeen. > If it says on the IGI that they were christened at SAINT > NICHOLAS.......... > > They are referring to the CHURCH, right? > > Saint Nicholas, ISN'T a place? Is it? > > They were born in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland???? > > Sorry, probably a dumb question, but unfortunately DON'T know the answer. > > Thanks > > :sjl > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Sharon & Robin LAMB wrote: > If it says on the IGI that they were christened at SAINT NICHOLAS.......... > > They are referring to the CHURCH, right? > > Saint Nicholas, ISN'T a place? Is it? > > They were born in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland? To amplify what Ray has already posted: Until the middle of the 18th century, the parish of St Nicholas almost exactly coincided with the territory of the Royal Burgh of Aberdeen, so baptisms, marriages, and (some) deaths will be found in the Old Parochial Registers for St Nicholas. From the later 18th century, the Royal Burgh started spreading beyond the boundaries of St Nicholas, and consequently (as Ray states) the western and southern parts of the town lay within the parish of Old Machar. In 1891, the City of Aberdeen officially spread to take in parts of the Kincardineshire parish of Nigg, and the Aberdeeshire parish of Newhills. To complicate matters, the parish of Old Machar also contained the Burgh of Old Aberdeen, which lay about a mile and a half away to the north, and which was a completely separate town until 1891. There are additional complications concerning a short-lived subdivision of St Nicholas parish, but the above is probably enough to be going on with. Gavin Bell